Lou the Cat's most extreme video!

Readers!

Lou and I made a top ten most extreme eliminations ever video. It took over 23 hours to watch every episode of MXC and many more hours to make the movie. No reference was made to the best of shows or any other internet top 10 video. This is original scholarship.  Most extreme elimination challenge. If you don't know what I'm talking about just watch and be amazed. 

This is it folks! The first ever Lou the Cat blog video!

photoshop and ya d-don't stop!

Dear readers,
    I'm sorry that I have not been posting but me and lou were pretty busy with finals. Lou's final exam for feline studies involved rigorous sleeping. Also, I accidentally locked lou in my room when I shut the door so that the clouds of smoke from the chilli chicken that Beans and I were deep frying wouldn't set off the smoke alarm. When I went to sleep that night I turned over and found myself face to face with a pile of cat poop. It was right next to my pillow. Now that's communication!

And now for some photoshoops in order of awesomeness:

 Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 the greatest video game of all time.

 

Lou the cat as Krang the lord of dimension X, archenemy of the animated ninja turtles.

 

 It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Me and Pika-Pika-PikaLou!

Those last two are horrifying.

Happy summer from me and lou to you.

Best,

Lou and lou.

True Factz about Lou the Catz

True Facts about Lou the Cat:

Lou came up with the idea for the space elevator, only originally it was a 22,000 mile high cat tree. Above the clouds it's really easy to sleep in the sunshine.

Lou can hunt for truffles.

Lou is liquid at low temperatures.

Lou the cat can form a bose-einstein condensate, with his butt.

We are a set of points in n-dimensional feature space and lou is a n-1 dimensional hyperplane that makes us linearly separable. That's the kernel trick baby.

iTunes is run entirely by lou from a cardboard box. no wires or computers, just string.

Lou owns a sawmill in Kentucky It's called Lou the cat's tree butchery.

If someone were to put Lou on a leash he would be furious, pooping furious.

Lou is the shoe-in favorite for upcoming international most handsomest cat competition and jamboree.

Lou was at Valley Forge but was warm cause hes fat.

When Lou the cat plays monopoly he only buys the oranges and the yellows and the dark blues because they have the highest return for their respective side's housing cost. He an iron.

*Lou just came up to me and yacked on the carpet. like just this very second. I have to go clean it up.

Lou went to the Mousechussets Institute of Catnology but then he turned on, tuned in, and dropped out.



Also,
Sunday Funday is the institution of partying hardy every Sunday. Two major exponents of the movement, and friends of the blog, the famous Dan Koenig and Kelsey Sveum have put together a killer website that sells Sunday Funday related gear. check it out: 

http://www.sundayfundayshop.com

Stay tuned for a big photoshop and ya don't stop post coming soon

Best,

Lou and Lou

Weird Cartoons Part II: The Reckoning

Ok So here is the top 5 weirdest cartoons that me and lou watch on a regular basis. But I remembered two more since last week and so there will be shows in the fractional parts of the top 5.



5.5) Tom Goes to the Mayor

Awesome. This is Tim and Eric's first show on cartoon network. It is about a bad but enthusiastic entrepreneur (Tim)  who brings his ideas to the town mayor (Eric). The mayor usually changes the ideas and things get wacky. The style is really cool and I wish I had come up with it. In the Episode "Calcucorn" Tim invents a plug in unicorn statue with a calculator in it's cement base. The Mayor orders them for everyone including the architects building a bridge but the calculator doesn't work properly. "Let's try 8+8..." Tim pulls the cord the unicorn says "18" Tim says "well that doesnt sound right let me just crunch some numbers here... ah crickets!"


5) Aeon Flux

Aeon Flux is a crazy avant-garde science fiction cartoon that was on MTV in the 90's. It's by the animator Peter Chung. It started as a segment on Liquid Television which is a weird and awesome show. It was also made into a not good movie in 2005. It's about an assassin secret agent who goes on solo missions and kills tons of faceless solders while bounding around acrobatically. She usually dies at the end of the episode. You don't really know why she's there or what shes trying to do and then there is usually no conclusion as she dies while trying to complete her mission. It's super trippy.


4) Super Jail

Superjail is about a magical warden of a jail for incurable criminals located at the center of a volcano. It's possibly under water too. According the the famous Brad Garoon, it has the best animation of any show on tv. It's mostly fight scenes and was originally just going to be one long fight scene. The fight scenes are awesome. The show is very insane and violent and trippy. Highly recommended by Lou the Kee. Zoom in on the above picture to get a taste of the insanity.



3) 12 oz Mouse

There is a continuous story line to 12 oz Mouse but it's very hard to understand. This is a show about a secret agent mouse who is an alcoholic and discharges firearms at random. Sometimes he sings opera on top of tanks. There is a shark at a desk and hippy with a hook for a hand who lives on a corn dog farm. The drawings are crude and the dialog is confusing. It is very absurd. It's also very awesome. Give it a shot.


2) Perfect Hair Forever

This is another short lived adult swim show that satirizes anime cartoons. It features a young man named Gerald with a balding problem who seeks the 9th level of power on the Tuna Mountain and his Uncle Grandfather who sends him out on his quest. Quaffio the evil controller of cats sends Astronomical Cat and Cat Man to stop Gerald, but he is helped by an annoying tree and a psychopathic tornado with a knife. There is also the King of All Animals who find himself and his menagere (giraffe voiced by mine and Lou's favorite rapper MF DOOM) in a hole in the middle of a bloody battle between hot dog buns and cats.
It is not for the faint of cartoon heart, but is highly recommended.


1.5) Xavier: Renegade Angel

This is a cartoon about a mystical traveler who is all knowing but also pathetically clueless. Note that it is weirder than all those other cartoons. The animation is disturbing and trippy. It was created by the creators of Wonder Showzen an utterly insane show it it's own right, and it is pretty dark. Xavier is a traveling shaman who has a beak and a snake for an arm and whose knees bend backwards which is really creepy. It is often extremely offensive and awesome. Recommended for the weird cartoon cultured reader.


1) Off the Air

This show is a collection of short films both animated and live action. There are only two 11 minute episodes. The first time I saw it it was 4:00 am and I wasn't expecting to watch anything insane. It totally blew my mind. The Animation is set to music and is fluid and vivid and strange. In one animation it shows people in an office in the fifties and suddenly out of their heads grows a spinning oscillating column of open mouths and eyes with no nose. These eventually fill the screen and there is a long snake of spinning mouths that encircles the screen excreting a swirling psychedelic pattern in the background. Hallucinatory and intense.


Thats all folks. Any differing opinions should be posted at the bottom of Blog de la Lou. I recommend that you scoop up any of these cartoons by bittorrent. If anyone has questions about how to do that shoot me an email and I'll help you out.

Lou the Cat says Peace. Armageddon has been in effect, go get a late pass… step.

weird cartoons part I

 Lou likes taking baths as long as no water is involved.

    Lou the Cat and I, Lou the Person, enjoy watching cartoons together.

     We watch weird cartoons, "the weirder the better with an extra dash of insanity," says lou. Together we have compiled a list  of strange cartoons that we enjoy, and we would like to share that list with you. Here are numbers 6 - 10 or 10 - 6. whichever. They coincidentally are all in the 11 - minute format and were originally on cartoon network's adult swim. You get 5 - 1 / 1 - 5 next week. Now in reverse order of weirdness.

10.)  Sealab 2021

     This show is really awesome. It used recycled footage from an old horrible boring cartoon from the 70's about environmentalism, called Sea Lab 2020. Crazy adventures occur on the underwater research station which often conclude with the whole place being blown up. The first two seasons are primo.




9.)  Frisky Dingo

     This show is super awesome. It is a serial comedy with a continued story line but it is so insane that any individual episode is baffling and absurd even if you have been following the story. It is about a super villain who, having spent all of his money on the Anihilatrix, a device for launching the earth into the sun, has only a quarter million left for his evil speech of doom and ends up having to send postcards instead. There is also a super hero who is also a billionaire, and an invention competition that is won by the "ant farm keyboard" which is subsequently dipped in toxic waste and the hyper intelligent ants who were "eating RAM" escape and take over the brain of the main female character. The first season is the best but the second is good too.





8.)  The Brak Show

This show is really awesome. Its about a cat-man from space and his friend who is an evil praying mantis. There are alot of show tunes. First season is the best.



7.)  Assy McGee

This show is very awesome. It's about a butt and pair of legs who wear olive green socks and a gun holster who fights crime as a city cop. He shoots a perp in the knee who screams "Help! I need a doctor!" Assy responds by shooting him in the other knee and mumbling "Now you need two doctors." First season is the best.





6.)  Squidbillies

      This show is exceedingly awesome. It's about hillbillies who are squids. You might have gleaned that from the title. He main character Early Cuyler lives with his son Rusty and his sister Lil and his grandmother Granny. In the first episode the Sheriff come to the house for a hair styling by Rusty who is working for his aunt while she works in her meth lab. "That boy can perm!" says the Sheriff  just before he sets on fire and screams demonically while tearing his own face off. Lil realizes that rusty had just shampooed the sheriff's hair with half a million dollars of pure crystal meth. The sheriff reappears in the next scene because there are rows of sheriffs growing like corn in a field nearby. I'm not really sure which of the six seasons is best but I tend to lean towards first seasons because it is not as  polished but has a purity of purpose.



These didn't even make our top 5 weirdest cartoons that we watch on a regular basis. Stay tuned for those, dear readers.



Also here is the fourth EP in the Lou the Cat musical parade of wailing rock music:

1.) That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - 2:06 - Mission of Burma

2.) Hybrid Moments - 1:42 - The Misfits

3.) Miss Fortune - 16:37 - Faust

4.) Fire Spirit - 2:53 - The Gun Club

download that shiz here

Alright Foolios, enjoy the jams and be well.
Lou & Lou

Lou the Cat and the TV

Lou enjoys sitting on the old 60" standard definition tube, but prefers to watch the new HD TV. Here are some pictures of him doing TV related shenanigans.

And now as promised, the art from the collection "Lou the Cat and the TV".

Part I: 

"Lou on TV"

It's like a mood ring only its a big tv. 

That color means he's in the mood to eat too much and throw up on the carpet.

Lion.

 King Lou!

Part II:
"Lou Watching TV"

 Nummers!

 Lou the lion.

 A Lou sized wild cat from the South American jungle. A new pal!

 

Assassin's creed!

 Amur Leopard...

 ...with a little cub!

All these prints are available for sale framed with premium acid free matting.
All proceeds will go the LTCFFCTAOKCRPWOWCPSOFAIT organization.

That is the "Lou The Cat Foundation For Cat Toys And Other Kitty-Cat Related Paraphernalia, With Or Without Catnip; Probably Strings Or Feathers Are Involved Too."


Happy Holidays,
If in doubt buy them bright colored shoes.

-Team Lou

monkeys and great novels

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If an infinite number of monkeys sat for a bit, or one monkey with an infinite amount of time typing at a typowriter, they would eventually churn out the complete works of shakespeare.

The chance of typing it out correctly one letter at a time with out missing is 1 / 10 ^ 7,500,000 which is like winning the jackpot every day for 20,000 years. or flipping a fair coin 25,000,000 times and it coming up heads every time.

For a monkey typing 1 letter per second, most likely the universe will end long before it produces shakespeare. But with an infinite amount of time he will churn out shakespeare an infinite amount of times.

There is a program that simulates monkeys typing at a typowriter and shows the longest string so far that matches shakespeare.

download that shiz here
(it only works on Mac OSX 10.6 or higher i.e. snow leopard or lion)
check out a good monkey website here




Lou the cat is sitting in my lap and says that if he had an infinite amount of time he would do several things.

1) Write infinitely many posts for the dear readers.

2) Dig to China

3) Read Proust's "In search of lost time"

4) Get to the kill screen in Donkey Kong

5) Beat Tony Hawk 2 with every character and get every gap... Infinity times.

6) Barf on the carpet... Infinity times.

7) Sleep on infinity televisions.





The famous Brad Garoon and I, Lou the Person,

have started a new blog called Great Novels. We write excerpts from non existant novels in the style of various authors. I just wrote the first part of an 18th century opera. Lou the person after DaPonte after Beaumarchais. I think it is and should continue to be funny.

check it out, bookmizzle that shizzle.
http://greatnovels.tumblr.com/



Next week I will be doing a presentation of photography entitled "Lou and the TV" here is a sample:

Lou the Cat Blog EP 3

1) 3:04 - "Looking at You" - MC5
2) 3:18 - "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" - Brian Eno
3) 3:10 - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - The Stooges
4) 18:46 - "A Rainbow in Curved Air" - Terry Riley

Download
This is a good one "A Rainbow in Curved Air" is a super important electronic composition.


Finally Becky Schiff sent me this link of funny cat pictures. There are lots of funny cat pictures on the interwebs but this one is particularly good.

http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/04/best-of-cats-chillin.html


Peace! Armageddon it's been in effect! Go get a late pass! Step!
lou and lou

Halloween, Mathmatical!

First!

Look to the right ->

There should be a facebook thing where you can 'Like' louthecat blog

Do it.

this will be the new way of announcing new blog posts because fb is going to delete the old group because its old. so like us! you know you like us!

Next:

Lou the cat loves math. Sometimes he proves theorems, sometimes he lays down on top of them.

Halloween: Me and Lou just had a blast at Madison's famous Halloween.

A Marceline the Vampire Queen pumpkin

from possibly the best show on television, 

Adventure Time.

 Betsy came all the way from Cornell to rage with us. 

She made this Wolverine costume from scratch. 

That is to say, she sewed together bolts of cloth with thread

to make the best super hero outfit we saw all night. 

 Julian came up from UChicago to party hardy. He is a ventriloquist dummy which is a super scary costume. I had a Goosebumps book about a ventriloquist dummy when I was in third grade and I am still scarred.

 Lou the person walked all the way down the street to party with the champs (without crutches!). 

Matt Schiff got a mail bag that they use on airplanes somehow and so I dressed up as a bag of mail. Everybody knew what I was, but were still confused.

EP 2:

1) 2:47 - "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - The Breeders
2) 2:54 - "Jesus Saves" - Slayer
3) 3:19 - "No Man Can Find the War" - Tim Buckley
4) 5:03 - "Chubb Sub" - Medeski Martin and Wood

download that shiz here.

Just unzip it and drag the whole folder onto iTunes where it says "playlist" on the side panel.





Photoshop Wednesday!

Roxy Music.





Jah bless.

Yo Lou the cat! Bum rush the show!

First!
Dear readers!

Lou and I are starting a new round of albums to download from the site. These are going to be a weekly series of four song EP's, and will feature a variety of musical styles. Just like free samples of food at Costco,

"No! Not free like Costco! Not free like free beer! Free like freedom!" says Lou.

EP 1:

1) 4:50 - "I Know You Got Soul" - Eric B. & Rakim
2) 2:17 - "Mouth Breather" - The Jesus Lizard
3) 6:56 - "Over the Ice" - The Field
4) 4:20 - "Into the Water" - Dethklok

download that shiz here.

Just unzip it and drag the whole folder onto iTunes where it says "playlist" on the side panel.




Next! Photoshop Wednesday!

Leopard.



Next!

We'd like to begin a series on albums that Lou the cat and Lou the person find particularly mind-blowing. These are albums that changed our life and made Lou the cat he is today.

 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

This album absolutely blew my mind. I looked up "best hip-hop album of all time" on google and It gave me my first introduction to hip hop. Chuck D. is just the sickest mc and Flava Flav is great too. They all collaborated on the production which is famous for having possibly the most samples of any album. It was produced just on the cusp of the age of copyright infringement issues in hip hop.

Lou was producing for Def Jam at the time under the alias of Hank Shocklee and he says it was a very creative atmosphere as they tried to match the music to the intensity of Chuck D's politically and socially charged flow.

In 2006 I was listening to this album non stop. One evening I was smooching with a girl in the back of my minivan while blasting public enemy. She told me that it wasn't very romantic and asked if we could switch, to which I responded: "nope."

Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause

Download it as a torrent here.

MC Lou and DJ Voldemort!
We gone! Peace!

Lou the Person: in the movies, broken.

Hey Team!

Me and Lou coming at you like beam, like a blade, like lightning, we're frightening. Coming at you like a mighty bazooka.

(fat)

FIRST!

Thanks to my buddy Joel Dunn, a director in New York City, I have an entry on imdb.com!
 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4526951/

This was the short film that I was credited with a special thanks on (watch it, it's 1 min long):
http://theory-films.com/video/smdes_shrt.php

Everything involved in the film was due to me. Lou was executive producer but he likes to keep a low profile so people don't realize that he controls all media, each and every medium.

"Well, what else has this guy Dunn done?" You may ask.
Check out that website for more stuff that, friend of the blog, Joel Dunn has done.



NEXT!

OK quick WARNING: if you're not into crazy x-rays scroll no further, cause I have a crazy x-ray.








I spent another weekend at Patsy's cabin.

I prompty slipped and broke my tibia on the side of a dock.

 Gnarly as all get out. Now get out.





 Then I got Robocop / 6 Million Dollar Man / Wolverine / Full Metal Alchemist hardware.

So now I'm basically a cyborg. I think I might set off metal detectors and I'm pretty sure I can sense changes in barometric pressure.

"Cyclone's a brewin', my gammy leg is acting up. I reckon she's a big un."
 -Lou the person

So me and Lou have been cold chillin' on the couch for the last part of the summer. I have often been on crazy pain-killers with nothing to do but watch cartoons with Lou. Mostly lame, but kind of awesome too.

From Lou and his,

Best to you and yours.

lou the art

lou and I spent the last 4 days apart.

I was in northern wisconsin at patsy schiff's summer house with
patsy schiff

and the famous annie schiff as well.

annie read 30(!) books in june.







meanwhile lou stayed in madison and was visited daily by the famous dan koenig.

dan koenig is a champion among kings among men. he chilled with lou and he cleaned my apartment as a surprise. big lou the cat blog shout-out and much lou the cat blog love to d k.




*update* annie left the door to my bathroom shut and lou pooped on my pillow out of spite





lou and I study art history. this is because lou is a work of art, as he has both form and intention. here is some art lou has been featured in:

grant wood's American Gothic

henry fuseli's The Nightmare (he's a demon)

lou is the Boy with a Toy Hand Grenade by diane arbus

lou the cat is hugo ball performing the dada sound poem karawane:

meow meow meoh.

Piet Mondrian's neo-plasticist Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red and Lou

 and finally henri matisse's Woman(Cat) with a Hat

lou's asleep right now but I'm sure he would send his best regards to the dear readers.

i'd like to send my best regards to the dear readers as well.